Constitutional Crisis

I don’t think I’m mistaken. An historian specializing in American presidential history would know for certain, but I believe we are smack dab in the middle of the greatest Constitutional Crisis of our nation’s history.

We have a man sitting in the chair of the President of the United States of America who is unfit, unstable, unprepared, and totally living outside the reality of his position. He has a staff that doesn’t believe that to be the case but the more time they spend with him the more they realize the hopelessness of their situation.

Being an outsider in politics does not require one to be an alien. The job of President is to lead the nation by persuasion and actions, not edict. The position does not have the power trump pretends to have. In his own corporate world – the owner and chief leader of his own enterprises – trump does have the power. In the Presidency of the USA he does not. He has 330 million bosses in the citizenry. And he has a job description in the US Constitution. And he has oversight committees galore throughout the Congress and agency protocols under his direction.

The President is not autonomous. Dictators have autonomy. Putin has a great deal of autonomy in Russia, but not totally. Idi Amin had total autonomy until the world unseated him. Same for Hitler and somewhat for Mussolini.

America is not so constructed.

We the people have the power. We are slow to anger and slow to move to action, but the time has surely come to remove the president from office. He has become a clear and present danger to the nation.

Remove him pending examination and due process. We have no time to lose in doing so. The danger is that great.

Trump is perceived to be unreliable among most of our allies. He is perceived as weak and bumbling by Russia and China. Taken together the situation is now dire for world peace. Only shenanigans and offensive military actions can result in this climate.

So, keep the peace and remove the problem; regain our stability with the Vice President taking his place until final actions are explored and decided upon. Under this arrangement Congressional oversight will be specific and great. Perhaps they can even put aide their partisanship to protect and preserve our nation.

It would be wise if all concerned gave much thought to the previous paragraph. We are in the worst crisis of our history precisely because partisan interests took the place of wise persons governing our nation. Too much power and money warped our system.

Democracy is messy. We all know that. People with good minds and big hearts know how to live with the messiness and bring order and wisdom to it. We have come to rely on that polite exercise of power and mindfulness. Generations of us have come to trust that capability. However, our recent history has raised a baleful disregard for logic, manners and poise. We have become greedy and noisy brats.

Best we curb this excess now than later and resume the business of governing a peaceful nation intent on improving the station of all nations on the globe. We have done well with this in the past; let us resume this good journey as our legacy.

May 16, 2017